Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to one line of speculation, the timing of the Nicholas ouster was dictated by Ross's health; he has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for prostate cancer since last autumn. Directors and company officers who opposed Nicholas felt that they needed to ensure that if Ross died, Nicholas would not succeed him. But a number of other insiders say the move would have been made months earlier had it not been for Ross's illness. One crystallizing factor, apparently, was the death of Borg-Warner chairman James F. Bere, a longtime member of the Time Inc. board who remained...
...provincialism in time to be able to goad ourselves into the excitement with which Mantegna and other Italian artists, architects and writers of the 15th century confronted the Antique: a buried civilization, an Atlantis below the hills and vineyards. What did it mean when Mantegna, in the early autumn of 1464, took off with two friends on a boat decked with carpets and laurel branches, punting around Lake Garda, twangling on the lute and looking for Roman ruins? This search for "such delightful places and such venerable ancient monuments," as one of them later wrote, was a serious idyll...
Thursday, Feb. 20: The Magic Flute at3:15 and 7:35 p.m. Autumn Sonata at 5:45 and 10p.m...
Tolstaya roams the nighttime city, taking us behind the flickering blue lights of a thousand windows. We share the unsought intimacy of overpeopled apartments where "another person's wall darkens and swells with autumn anguish." Those who suffer must not only endure their plight; they must also surrender the peculiarly human right to be themselves: to lust, to scheme, to betray, to generally behave badly. Tolstaya is there to remind us that not even history at its most reckless can rob individuals of the right to their own stories...
...past persecution by the KGB and by the need to settle old scores to be a truly democratic leader. Obsessed with conspiracies involving "agents of the Kremlin," the President closed down liberal newspapers and barred critics from television. During a wave of protest against his authoritarian rule last autumn, police loyal to him fired on demonstrators, and he jailed opposition leaders. He was intent on extending his power into the provinces by appointing presidential prefects, but he showed no interest in radical economic reforms. Georgia became isolated from the other republics, especially Russia, the region's primary supplier of bread...